Changelog for libevent-2_1-8-2.1.8-2.3.x86_64.rpm :

* Mon Oct 02 2017 jengelhAATTinai.de- Trim description of secondary packages and SRPM. Rectify RPM group.
* Mon Oct 02 2017 dimstarAATTopensuse.org- Add baselibs.conf: build libevent-2_1-8-32bit (needed by libqt5-qtwebengine).
* Mon Feb 20 2017 ddissAATTsuse.com- Update to 2.1.8 stable
* Fix _FILE_OFFSET_BITS redefinition
* evutil_time: include when there is only sleep()/usleep()
* test/dns: run async resolving after sync one (to avoid timeouts)
* test/http: turn off some tests that based on backlog filling
* Fix incorrect MIME type- Add libevent-2.1.8-stable.tar.gz.asc tarball GPG signature
* Replace keyring with Azat Khuzhin\'s public key
* Fri Nov 25 2016 ddissAATTsuse.com- Update to 2.1.7 rc
* Fix cmake -DEVENT__COVERAGE=ON
* use ev_uint16_t instead of unsigned short for port
* poll: Prevent libevent from spinning if POLLNVAL occurs
* Make it build using OpenSSL 1.1.0
* Don\'t call BIO_number_{read|written} on NULL BIOs.
* Switch from a 512 to 2048-bit RSA key.
* Ignore temporary configure files
* Wed Jul 06 2016 ddissAATTsuse.com- Fix pkg-config/pkgconfig BuildRequires for Fedora.
* Sat Mar 14 2015 mpluskalAATTsuse.com- Cleanup spec file with spec-cleaner- Add gpg signature- Enable tests that do not require network connection
* Sun Feb 22 2015 benoit.moninAATTgmx.fr- update to 2.0.22:
* Avoid integer overflow bugs in evbuffer_add() and related functions. See CVE-2014-6272 advisory for more information
* fix #73 and fix http_connection_fail_test to catch it
* Avoid racy bufferevent activation
* Fix compilation with WIN32_HAVE_CONDITION_VARIABLES enabled
* Fix missing AC_PROG_SED on older Autoconfs
* Backport libevent to vanilla Autoconf 2.59 (as used in RHEL5)
* Use AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in place of AM_CONFIG_HEADERS for autmake 1.13 compat
* Rename configure.in to configure.ac to appease newer autoconfs
* Avoid using top_srcdir in TESTS: new automakes do not like this
* Use windows vsnprintf fixup logic on all windows environments
* Fix a compiler warning when checking for arc4random_buf linker breakage
* Fix another arc4random_buf-related warning
* Add -Qunused-arguments for clang on macos
* Avoid leaking fds on evconnlistener with no callback set
* Avoid double-close on getsockname error in evutil_ersatz_socketpair
* Fix a locking error in bufferevent_socket_get_dns_error
* libevent/win32_dealloc() : fix sizeof(pointer) vs sizeof(
*pointer)
* bufferevent_pair: don\'t call downcast(NULL)
* Consistently check for failure from evbuffer_pullup()
* Fix race caused by event_active
* Avoid redundant invocations of init_extension_functions for IOCP
* Typo fixes from Linus Nordberg
* Add a few files created by \"make verify\" to .gitignore
* regress_buffer: fix \'memcmp\' compare size
* Fix bufferevent setwatermark suspend_read
* Fix evbuffer_peek() with len==-1 and start_at non-NULL
* Checking request nameserver for NULL, before using it
* Fix SEGFAULT after evdns_base_resume if no nameservers installed
* Fix a crash in evdns related to shutting down evdns
* Check does arch have the epoll_create and __NR_epoll_wait syscalls
* Avoid other RNG initialization FS reads when urandom file is specified
* When we seed from /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid, count it as success
* Document that arc4random is not a great cryptographic PRNG
* Add evutil_secure_rng_set_urandom_device_file
* Really remove RNG seeds from the stack
* Fix a mistake in evbuffer_remove() arguments in example http server code
* Fix a typo in a comment in buffer.h
* Clarify event_base_loop exit conditions
* Use FindClose for handle from FindFirstFile in http-server.c
* Fix a typo in a doxygen comment- update source URL
* Fri Jan 09 2015 ddissAATTsuse.com- Update to 2.1.5 beta
* Avoid integer overflow bugs in evbuffer_add() and related functions. See CVE-2014-6272 advisory for more information.
* Provide support for SO_REUSEPORT through LEV_OPT_REUSABLE_PORT
* Fix use-after-free error in EV_CLOSURE_EVENT callback
* Fix race caused by event_active
* Fix evbuffer_peek() with len==-1 and start_at non-NULL.
* Consistently check for failure from evbuffer_pullup()
* Fix evbuffer_peek() with len==-1 and start_at non-NULL.
* be async: avoid double close()
* Avoid double free for filterevents that use BEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE
* fix bufferevent setwatermark suspend_read
* bufferevent_openssl: reset fd_is_set when setfd with -1 is called
* Add evhttp_connection_set_family() to set addrinfo->family for DNS requests
* Implement interface that provides the ability to have an outbound evhttp_connection free itself once all requests have completed
* Implement new/free for struct evutil_monotonic_timer and export monotonic time functions
* Fix a crash in evdns related to shutting down evdns
* evdns: avoid read-after-free in evdns_request_timeout_callback()
* Correctly handle allocation failures in evdns_getaddrinfo
* evdns: fix EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE in case retransmit/retry
* evdns: add retry/reissue tests for EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE
* evdns: fail ns after we are failing/retrasmitting request
* http: reset connection before installing retry timer (fix http retries handling)
* regress_dns: fix leaks in getaddrinfo_async{,_cancel_stress} tests
* use correct tt macro for pointer compare
* regress_buffer: fix \'memcmp\' compare size
* Use a more precise calculation for max in time-ratelim.c
* Make a buffer larger in the tests to avoid a scary evbuffer_copyout_from()
* Make http-server.c output into good html5
* Use FindClose for handle from FindFirstFile in http-server.c
* https-client: add -retries argument, for connection retries
* Fix mixed declarations and code (forbidden by ISO C90)
* tree.h: drop duplicated content of tree.h
* evdns: disable probing with EVDNS_BASE_DISABLE_WHEN_INACTIVE
* Change return type of evutil_load_windows_system_library_ to HMODULE
* Tue Oct 21 2014 ddissAATTsuse.com- Fix build on non-SUSE rpm based platforms.
* Tue Oct 21 2014 ddissAATTsuse.com- Update to 2.1.4 alpha
* Added event_base_get_num_events()
* New event_base_active_by_fd API
* Add event_base_active_by_signal by analogy
* Add access to max event count stats
* Implemented EV_CLOSED event for epoll backend (EPOLLRDHUP).
* Add evutil_secure_rng_set_urandom_device_file
* Add function to fetch underlying ratelimit cfg
* Pass and return const for bufferevent_get_token_bucket_cfg
* Add watermark introspection
* Add an option to trigger bufferevent I/O callbacks
* Add an option to trigger bufferevent event callbacks
* Add evhttp_connection_get_server()
* add a http default content type option
* http: implement new evhttp_connection_get_addr() api.
* Add a variant of evhttp_send_reply_chunk() with a callback on evhttp_write_buffer()
* Allow registering callback for parsing HTTP headers
* Provide on request complete callback facility
* evhttp_request_set_on_complete_cb to be more specific about what the function actually does and usage
* bug fix for issues #293 evdns_base_load_hosts doesn\'t remove outdated addresses
* Don\'t segfault on no found event backend.
* Change the BSD license from 4 to 3-clause.
* Minimum required python version is 2.4.
* Added EVENT__ENABLE_GCC_WARNINGS, turns all warnings into errors.
* Some work on making it possible to simply do add_subdirectory() on the project.
* Rename event_extras to event_extra
* If evsel->del() fails, don\'t leave the evmap in an inconsistent state
* Move event_debug_note_teardown_ before mm_free.
* Check CLOCK_MONOTONIC_
* at runtime if needed.
* Fix reinit of fds with EV_WRITE but not EV_READ.
* Tweaked callbacks to prevent race condition (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/104)
* Move assert(ev) to before we use ev in EV_CLOSURE_EVENT_FINALIZE case
* Fix a double close() bug in evhttp when the underlying bufferevent uses BEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE.
* Avoid racy bufferevent activation
* When we seed from /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid, count it as success
* Avoid other RNG initialization FS reads when urandom file is specified
* Really remove RNG seeds from the stack
* Initialize async bufferevent timeout CBs unconditionally
* Checking request nameserver for NULL, before using it.
* Fix SEGFAULT after evdns_base_resume if no nameservers installed.
* Actually use the log facility for reporting evdns problems.
* Fix SEGFAULT after evdns_base_resume if no nameservers installed.
* fix for ServFail from RIPE Atlas release
* Missed lock acquire/release in event_base_cancel_single_callback_()
* Fix locking in bufferevent_get_options_().
* Avoid leaking segment mappings when offset is not a page multiple
* Add tests for evdns_base_resume().
* Avoid redundant syscall to make a nonblocking socket nonblocking
* Avoid redundant syscall if making a socket cloexec twice
* Avoid redundant invocations of init_extension_functions for IOCP
* le-proxy: Fail more gracefully if opening listener fails
* http-server: drop uri_root from base_url in http-server.
* https-client: POST supported, args supported
* https-client: Set hostname for SNI extension- Update to 2.1.3 alpha
* Implement event_finalize() and related functions to avoid certain deadlocks
* Use finalization feature so bufferevents can avoid deadlocks
* Always run pending finalizers when event_base_free() is called
* Remove bufferevent_del_generic_timeout_cbs as now unused
* More documentation for finalization feature
* Make the event_finalize
* functions return an error code
* Mark the finalize stuff as experiemental in case it needs to change
* evdns: New flag to make evdns not prevent the event loop from exiting
* Make event_remove_timer behave correctly with persistent timers
* Unit test for event_remove_timer with EV_PERSIST.
* Double-check next timeout when adding events
* event_base_update_cache_time should be a no-op if the loop isn\'t running
* Avoid leaking fds on evconnlistener with no callback set
* Avoid double-close on getsockname error in evutil_ersatz_socketpair
* Fix a locking error in bufferevent_socket_get_dns_error.
* Fix a mistake in evbuffer_remove() arguments in example http server code
* When EWOULDBLOCK is not EAGAIN, treat it as equivalent to it
* Fix ipv6 support for http. When URL contain domain, not IP address.
* uri decode: fix for warning \"use of uninitialised value\"
* uri decode: changed the test for the existence of the next character
* Add new error_cb for actual reporting of HTTP request errors.
* Add test for EVREQ_HTTP_REQUEST_CANCEL into http_cancel_test()
* Drop extra header http_struct.h from regress_http.c
* https-client was putting newlines at 256-byte boundaries
* better handling of OpenSSL errors
* use Debian\'s default root certificate location
* use iSECPartners code to validate hostname in certificate
* pull in wildcard matching code from cURL- Update to 2.1.2 alpha
* Replace pipe-based notification with EVFILT_USER where possible.
* Make th_base_lock nonrecursive.
* New event_get_priority() function to return an event\'s priority
* Add a bufferevent_get_priority() function
* Add an event_base_loopcontinue() to tell Libevent to rescan for more events right away
* Add a new callback to get called on evbuffer_file_segment free
* Expose event_base_foreach_event() as a public API.
* Add an event_remove_timer() to remove timer on an event without deleting it
* Make bufferevent_set_timeouts(bev, NULL, NULL) have plausible semantics
* Rename event_enable_lock_debuging() to ..._debugging(). (The old name should still work.)
* Add missing implementation for event_enable_debug_logging
* Do not track use_monotonic field when is no monotonic clock
* EVENT_BASE_FLAG_PRECISE_TIMER indicates we want fine timer precision
* On Linux, use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE by default
* Refactor monotonic timer handling into a new type and set of functions; add a gettimeofday-based ratcheting implementation
* Add EVENT_PRECISE_TIMER environment var for selecting precise-but-slow timer
* Avoid giving a spurious warning when timerfd support is unavailable
* Free dangling event_once objects on event_base_free()
* Avoid (unlikely) overflow in bench_httpclient.c
* Change evutil_weakrand_() to avoid platform random()
* Refactor the callback part of an event into its own event_callback type
* Add \"active later\" event_callbacks to supersede deferred
* event_base_assert_ok: check value of event_active_count for correctness
* Replace deferred_cbs with event_callback-based implementation.
* Restore our priority-inversion-prevention code with deferreds
* Refactor event_persist_closure: raise and extract some common logic
* Remove the unused bits from EVLIST_ALL
* ignore LWS after field-content in headers
* Remove trailing tabs in HTTP headers as well.
* Remove internal ws from multiline http headers correctly
* add evhttp_request_get_response_code_line
* Use EVUTIL_SOCKET_ERROR() wrapper to save/restore errno in evhttp_connection_fail_
* preserve errno in evhttp_connection_fail_ for inspection by the callback
* Correctly handle running on a system where accept4 doesn\'t work.
* Avoid double-free on error in evbuffer_add_file.
* Fix another possible uninitialized read in dns regression tests.
* Prevent reference leak of bufferevent if getaddrinfo fails.
* Make event_base_getnpriorities work with old \"implicit base\" code
* Fix event_dlist definition when sys/queue not included- Update to 2.1.1 alpha
* Replace several TAILQ users with LIST. LIST can be a little faster than TAILQ for cases where we don\'t need queue-like behavior.
* Disabled code to optimize the case where we reinsert an existing timeout
* Remove a needless base-notify when rescheduling the first timeout
* Save a needless comparison when removing/adjusting timeouts
* Possible optimization: split event_queue_insert/remove into separate functions.
* Make event_count maintenance branchless at the expense of an extra shift.
* Optimization in event_process_active(): ignore maxcb & endtime for highest priority events.
* Bypass event_add when using event_base_once() for a 0-sec timeout
* Remove the eventqueue list and the ev_next pointers.
* Roughly 20% speed increase when line-draining a buffer using EVBUFFER_EOL_CRLF
* Infrastructure for using faster/fewer syscalls when creating sockets
* Minimize syscalls during socket creation in listener.c
* Use a wrapper function to create the notification pipe/socketpair/eventfd
* Use pipes for telling signals to main thread when possible
* Save syscalls when constructing listener sockets for evhttp
* Save some syscalls when creating evdns sockets
* Save some syscalls when constructing a socket for a bufferevent
* Prefer epoll_create1 on Linux where available
* Use current event set rather than current pending change when deciding whether to no-op a del
* evport: use evmap_io to track fdinfo status. Should save time and RAM.
* evport: Remove a linear search over recent events when reactivating them
* evport: Use portev_user to remember fdinfo struct
* evport: don\'t scan more events in ed_pending than needed
* evport: Remove artificial low limit on max events per getn call
* Reenable main/many_events_slow_add for evport in 2.1
* Add event_enable_debug_logging() to control use of debug logs
* Add event_config function to limit time/callbacks between calls to dispatch
* New EVLOOP_NO_EXIT_ON_EMPTY option to keep looping even when no events are pending
* Add event_base_get_npriorities() function.
* Make evbase_priority_init() and evbase_get_npriorities() threadsafe
* New event_base_update_cache_time() to set cached_tv to current time
* Add event_self_cbarg() to be used in conjunction with event_new().
* Add a new libevent_global_shutdown() to free all globals before exiting.
* Use getifaddrs to detect our interfaces if possible
* Add event_base_get_running_event() to get the event
* whose cb we are in
* Add evbuffer_add_file_segment() so one fd can be used efficiently in more than one evbuffer_add_file at a time
* Allow evbuffer_ptr_set to yield a point just after the end of the buffer.
* Allow evbuffer_ptr to point to position 0 in an empty evbuffer
* Set the special \"not found\" evbuffer_ptr consistently.
* support adding buffers to other buffers non-destructively
* prevent nested multicast references, reworked locking
* New EVBUFFER_EOL_NUL to read NUL-terminated strings from an evbuffer
* Make evbuffer_file_segment_types adaptable
* Added evbuffer_add_iovec and unit tests.
* Add evbuffer_copyout_from to copy data from the middle of a buffer
* Allow users to set allow_dirty_shutdown
* Add a bufferevent_getcb() to find a bufferevent\'s current callbacks
* bufferevent: Add functions to set/get max_single_read/write values.
* bev_ssl: Be more specific in event callbacks. evhttp in particular gets confused without at least one of BEV_EVENT_{READING|WRITING}.
* Support TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT sockopts for listeners
* Allow evconnlistener to be created in disabled state.
* The LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_EXEC flag now applies to accepted listener sockets too
* Add evhttp callback for bufferevent creation; this lets evhttp support SSL.
* evhttp: Add evhttp_foreach_bound_socket.
* Provide the autoconf m4 macros for the new OpenSSL via pkg-config stuff.
* Move libevent 1.x headers to include/, to put all public headers in a new place.
* Add a magic number to debug_locks to better catch lock-coding errors.
* munge the debug_lock signature before freeing it: it might help us catch use-after-free
* Tweaks to return types with end-of-buf ptrs
* New evhttp function to adjust initial retry timeout
* event_rpcgen.py now prints status information to stdout and errors to stderr.
* Restore fast-path event_reinit() for slower backends
* Check changelist as part of checking representational integrity
* Convert event-config.h macros to avoid reserved identifiers
* Convert include-guard macro convention to avoid reserved identifiers
* Make event_rpcgen.py output conform to identifier conventions
* Apply the naming convention to our EVUTIL_IS
* functions
* Do not use system EAI/AI values if we are not using the system getaddrinfo.
* Sat Jun 29 2013 iAATTmarguerite.su- update to 2.0.21
* see ChangeLog for details.
* Fri Nov 16 2012 andreas.stiegerAATTgmx.de- update to 2.0.20
* core: Make event_pending() threadsafe
* evhttp: Fix a memory leak on error in evhttp_uriencode
* evbuffer: Avoid possible needless call to writev
* evdns: memset sockaddr_in before using it
* evhttp: Check more setsockopt return values when binding sockets
* evdns: Avoid segfault on weird timeout during name lookup
* bufferevent_ssl: Correctly invoke callbacks when a SSL bufferevent reads some and then blocks
* Mon Jul 30 2012 crrodriguezAATTopensuse.org- Libevent 2.0.19
* Fix periodic timeout behavior when time jumps forwar
* Avoid certain priority inversions
* More evdns improvements
* lots of other bugfixes, see NEWS for details.- Provide openssl support.
* Wed Feb 01 2012 jengelhAATTmedozas.de- Remove redundant tags/sections per specfile guideline suggestions- Use \"pkgconfig\" BR so that the package also works on Redhats.
* Wed Aug 03 2011 friseerAATTgmx.de- spec mods o libsoname macro o name macro- added baselibs.conf- rpmlint o fix self obsoletes
* Tue Mar 22 2011 dimstarAATTopensuse.org- Drop autoreconf call from build section. We do not carry any patches at this time.
* Mon Mar 21 2011 dimstarAATTopensuse.org- Update to version 2.0.10: + Bugfixes: - Minor fix for IOCP shutdown handling fix - Correctly notify the main thread when activating an event from a subthread - Reject overlong http requests early when Expect:100-continue is set - EVUTIL_ASSERT: Use sizeof() to avoid \"unused variable\" warnings with -DNDEBUG. + Code cleanups: - bufferevent-internal.h: Use the new event2/util.h header, not evutil.h - Use relative includes instead of system includes consistently - Make whitespace more consistent- For all changes between 1.4.14 and 2.0.10, see ChangeLog.- BuildRequire pkg-config, for proper pkgconfig() provides.- Change library soname to libevent-2_0-5
* Mon Jun 21 2010 alexandreAATTexatati.com.br- Spec file cleaned with spec-cleaner;- Changes in 1.4.14b-stable o Set the VERSION_INFO correctly for 1.4.14- Changes in 1.4.14-stable o Add a .gitignore file for the 1.4 branch. (d014edb) o Backport evbuffer_readln(). (b04cc60 Nicholas Marriott) o Make the evbuffer_readln backport follow the current API (c545485) o Valgrind fix: Clear struct kevent before checking for OSX bug. (5713d5d William Ahern) o Fix a crash when reading badly formatted resolve.conf (5b10d00 Yasuoka Masahiko) o Fix memory-leak of signal handler array with kqueue. [backport] (01f3775) o Update sample/signal-test.c to use newer APIs and not leak. (891765c Evan Jones) o Correct all versions in 1.4 branch (ac0d213) o Make evutil_make_socket_nonblocking() leave any other flags alone. (81c26ba Jardel Weyrich) o Adjusted fcntl() retval comparison on evutil_make_socket_nonblocking(). (5f2e250 Jardel Weyrich) o Correct a debug message in evhttp_parse_request_line (35df59e) o Merge branch \'readln-backport\' into patches-1.4 (8771d5b) o Do not send an HTTP error when we\'ve already closed or responded. (4fd2dd9 Pavel Plesov) o Re-add event_siglcb; some old code _was_ still using it. :( (bd03d06) o Make Libevent 1.4 build on win32 with Unicode enabled. (bce58d6 Brodie Thiesfield) o Distribute nmake makefile for 1.4 (20d706d) o do not fail while sending on http connections the client closed. (5c8b446) o make evhttp_send() safe against terminated connections, too (01ea0c5) o Fix a free(NULL) in min_heap.h (2458934) o Fix memory leak when setting up priorities; reported by Alexander Drozdov (cb1a722) o Clean up properly when adding a signal handler fails. (ae6ece0 Gilad Benjamini) o Do not abort HTTP requests missing a reason string. (29d7b32 Pierre Phaneuf) o Fix compile warning in http.c (906d573) o Define _REENTRANT as needed on Solaris, elsewhere (6cbea13)- Changes in 1.4.13-stable: o If the kernel tells us that there are a negative number of bytes to read from a socket, do not believe it. Fixes bug 2841177; found by Alexander Pronchenkov. o Do not allocate the maximum event queue and fd array for the epoll backend at startup. Instead, start out accepting 32 events at a time, and double the queue\'s size when it seems that the OS is generating events faster than we\'re requesting them. Saves up to 512K per epoll-based event_base. Resolves bug 2839240. o Fix compilation on Android, which forgot to define fd_mask in its sys/select.h o Do not drop data from evbuffer when out of memory; reported by Jacek Masiulaniec o Rename our replacement compat/sys/_time.h header to avoid build a conflict on HPUX; reported by Kathryn Hogg. o Build kqueue.c correctly on GNU/kFreeBSD platforms. Patch pulled upstream from Debian. o Fix a problem with excessive memory allocation when using multiple event priorities. o When running set[ug]id, don\'t check the environment. Based on a patch from OpenBSD.
* Wed Oct 28 2009 crrodriguezAATTopensuse.org- libevent-devel Requires glibc-devel
* Thu Aug 27 2009 meissnerAATTsuse.de- Changes in 1.4.12-stable: o Try to contain degree of failure when running on a win32 version so heavily firewalled that we can\'t fake a socketpair. o Fix an obscure timing-dependent, allocator-dependent crash in the evdns code. o Use __VA_ARGS__ syntax for varargs macros in event_rpcgen when compiler is not GCC. o Activate fd events in a pseudorandom order with O(N) backends, so that we don\'t systematically favor low fds (select) or earlier-added fds (poll, win32). o Fix another pair of fencepost bugs in epoll.c. [Patch from Adam Langley.] o Do not break evdns connections to nameservers when our IP changes. o Set truncated flag correctly in evdns server replies. o Disable strict aliasing with GCC: our code is not compliant with it.- Changes in 1.4.11-stable: o Fix a bug when removing a timeout from the heap. [Patch from Marko Kreen] o Remove the limit on size of HTTP headers by removing static buffers. o Fix a nasty dangling pointer bug in epoll.c that could occur after epoll_recalc(). [Patch from Kevin Springborn] o Distribute Win32-Code/event-config.h, not ./event-config.h- Changes in 1.4.10-stable: o clean up buffered http connection data on reset; reported by Brian O\'Kelley o bug fix and potential race condition in signal handling; from Alexander Drozdov o rename the Solaris event ports backend to evport o support compilation on Haiku o fix signal processing when a signal callback delivers a signal; from Alexander Drozdov o const-ify some arguments to evdns functions. o off-by-one error in epoll_recalc; reported by Victor Goya o include Doxyfile in tar ball; from Jeff Garzik o correctly parse queries with encoded \\r, \
or + characters
* Mon Mar 16 2009 meissnerAATTsuse.de- updated to 1.4.9-stable: o event_add would not return error for some backends; from Dean McNamee o Clear the timer cache on entering the event loop; reported by Victor Chang o Only bind the socket on connect when a local address has been provided; reported by Alejo Sanchez o Allow setting of local port for evhttp connections to support millions of connections from a single system; from Richard J ones. o Clear the timer cache when leaving the event loop; reported by Robin Haberkorn o Fix a typo in setting the global event base; reported by lance. o Fix a memory leak when reading multi-line headers o Fix a memory leak by not running explicit close detection for server connections- updated to 1.4.8-stable: o Match the query in DNS replies to the query in the request; from Vsevolod Stakhov. o Fix a merge problem in which name_from_addr returned pointers to the stack; found by Jiang Hong. o Do not remove Accept-Encoding header- updated to 1.4.7-stable: o Fix a bug where headers arriving in multiple packets were not parsed; fix from Jiang Hong; test by me.- updated to 1.4.6-stable: o evutil.h now includes directly o switch all uses of [v]snprintf over to evutil o Correct handling of trailing headers in chunked replies; from Scott Lamb. o Support multi-line HTTP headers; based on a patch from Moshe Litvin o Reject negative Content-Length headers; anonymous bug report o Detect CLOCK_MONOTONIC at runtime for evdns; anonymous bug report o Fix a bug where deleting signals with the kqueue backend would cause subsequent adds to fail o Support multiple events listening on the same signal; make signals regular events that go on the same event queue; problem report by Alexander Drozdov. o Deal with evbuffer_read() returning -1 on EINTR|EAGAIN; from Adam Langley. o Fix a bug in which the DNS server would incorrectly set the type of a cname reply to a. o Fix a bug where setting the timeout on a bufferevent would take not effect if the event was already pending. o Fix a memory leak when using signals for some event bases; reported by Alexander Drozdov. o Add libevent.vcproj file to distribution to help with Windows build. o Fix a problem with epoll() and reinit; problem report by Alexander Drozdov. o Fix off-by-one errors in devpoll; from Ian Bell o Make event_add not change any state if it fails; reported by Ian Bell. o Do not warn on accept when errno is either EAGAIN or EINTR